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Sparkling Wine Mixology Recipes

Aperol Spritzer

Yield: 6 drinks

  • ice cubes
  • 1 (750ml) bottle La Gioiosa Asolo Prosecco, chilled
  • 12 oz. Aperol Aperitivo
  • sparkling water, chilled
  • 6 orange slices

DIRECTIONS

For each drink, fill a 14- to 16-ounce tumbler three-quarters full with ice. Fill each glass two-thirds full with Prosecco, add 2 ounces of the Aperol, a splash of sparkling water, and an orange slice, and stir. Serve ice cold.

Spring Champagne Strawberry Cocktail

Yield: about 6 drinks

 

  • 1 bottle Gloria Ferrer Brut Sparkling Wine
  • 1 cup fresh Cabot, Arkansas strawberries
  • 1 lime

 

DIRECTIONS

Wash and drain the strawberries. Puree strawberries carefully in a blender just until smooth. Don’t overdo the blending. Squeeze juice from the lime and add to the puree. Place strawberry puree in tall glasses (Champagne flute preferred), about an inch high. Pour Champagne over strawberry puree, then give the drinks a stir. Decorate with fresh strawberries and serve.

Cherries Jubilee

  • 12 fresh cherries
  • 3 oz. Makers Mark Bourbon
  • ½ oz. lemon juice
  • dash bitters
  • champagne – Chandon Brut Rosé recommended

DIRECTIONS

Muddle cherries and bourbon in a cocktail shaker. Add lemon juice and shake. Pour into two champagne glasses; top with champagne and dash of bitters.

Colonial's Champagne

  • 2 oz. ROXOR Gin
  • 1 oz. lemon juice
  • ½ oz. simple syrup
  • Gloria Ferrer Blanc de Blancs

DIRECTIONS

Shake gin, lemon juice and simple syrup with ice. Strain into a champagne flute and top with sparkling wine. Garnish with a twist of lemon zest.

French 75

  • 1 lemon
  • 1 ½ oz. Citadelle Gin
  • 1 ½  Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
  • 1 Tbsp. simple syrup
  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • ¼ cup Gloria Ferrer Brut, chilled

DIRECTIONS

Mix all liquid ingredients together in your favorite mug. Garnish and enjoy!

French 75 (Cognac Variation)

  • 1 oz. Hennessey VS Cognac
  • ¼ oz. fresh-squeezed lemon juice
  • ¼ oz. simple syrup
  • 4 oz. Lucien Albrecht Brut Cremant d’Alsace

DIRECTIONS

Mix cognac, lemon juice, simple syrup in a shaker of ice and shake until chilled. Strain into champagne flute and top with chilled champagne.

New Year Sparkler

  • 6 blueberries + extra for garnish
  • 1 oz. Hornitos Plata Tequila
  • ¾ oz. fresh lemon juice
  • ¾ oz. simple syrup
  • ½ oz. fresh pineapple juice
  • 1 dash Angostura Bitters
  • splash of La Marca Prosecco

DIRECTIONS

Lightly muddle 6 blueberries in a shaker. Combine remainder of ingredients except Prosecco in the shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Double strain into a champagne flute and add a splash of Prosecco. Garnish with blueberries in the glass or on a skewer.

Mathilde Sparklers

  • 2 oz. Mathilde liqueur – your choice!
  • sparkling wine – Toso Brut recommended

DIRECTIONS

Pour the Mathilde liqueur into a champagne flute and top with Toso Brut. Garnish with fresh fruit or herbs.

Gin Fizz

2 oz. Citadelle Gin

½ oz. St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur

4 oz. La Gioiosa Prosecco

Garnish: mint leaves, cucumber

 

DIRECTIONS

Add gin and elderflower liqueur to a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a stemless wine glass and top with Prosecco. Garnish with mint leaves and/or cucumber slices.

Sparkling Pimm's Cocktail

  • 1 ½ oz. Pimm’s Cup #1
  • 1 oz. Giffard Crème de Mure Blackberry Liqueur
  • ½ oz. Hendrick’s Gin
  • dash Fee Brothers Aromatic Bitters
  • 2 oz. English Style Lemonade
  • 2 oz. La Gioiosa Prosecco

DIRECTIONS

Mix all ingredients and pour over ice into a cocktail glass. Garnish with cucumber spear, blackberries, and a rosemary sprig.

Frozecco

  • 2 cups Caposaldo Prosecco
  • ½ cup Tito’s Vodka
  • 1 ½ cups chopped strawberries
  • ¼ cup fresh lime juice
  • ice
  • strawberry for garnish

DIRECTIONS

Add all of the ingredients together in a blender, blend and serve. Garnish with a sliced strawberry.

Little Kiss Cocktail

  • ¼ oz. strawberry syrup*
  • ¼ oz. White Crème de Cacao
  • 3 oz.  Korbel Natural Sparkling Wine

DIRECTIONS

Combine crème de cacao and strawberry syrup in the bottom of a champagne flute and stir together. Pour chilled sparkling wine in flute and garnish with a strawberry on rim of glass.

Love At First Sight

  • 1 bottle chilled La Gioiosa Prosecco
  • ½ oz. Pallini Limoncello
  • ½ oz. Grey Goose Vodka
  • ½ oz. Cointreau
  • dash of grenadine, for color
  • Maraschino cherry

DIRECTIONS

In a shaker of ice, pour Limoncello, vodka and Cointreau. Shake for an extended period – at least 20 seconds. Pour this medley into a tall fluted glass. Fill the rest of the glass with Prosecco. Add a touch of grenadine and stir gently, and drop a maraschino cherry into the glass.